Former Rep. Joe Kennedy teams up with Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez — again

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Daily Caller:

For the sixth straight year and with the help of Joseph Kennedy II’s non-profit Citizens Energy Corporation, Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez is again attempting to win over America’s less fortunate with the promise of free energy.

The end of January marked the beginning of the CITGO-Venezuela Heating Oil Program, a Venezuelan initiative to provide energy for needy individuals throughout the United States.

As a subsidiary of government-owned Petroleos de Venezuela, CITGO is synonymous with Venezuela’s anti-American, dissent-crushing president. Despite Chavez’s abysmal human rights record, hatred of capitalism, anti-Americanism, and blatant anti-Semitism, former Democratic Massachusetts Rep. Kennedy still finds it acceptable to partner with the Venezuelan oil giant.

“Every year, we hear from families who struggle each and every day to put food on the table and heat their homes,” said Kennedy in a statement. “We are deeply grateful to CITGO and the people of Venezuela for their generosity to those who need help keeping their families warm. Every year, we ask major oil companies and oil-producing nations to help our senior citizens and the poor make it through winter, and only one company, CITGO, and one country, Venezuela, has responded to our appeals.”